Emilia

Question 1

Quote which signifies Loyalty

Answer 1

‘I nothing but to please his fantasy’

Question 2

‘I nothing but to please his fantasy’ Why does this show naivety?

Answer 2

Implies her intention is to impress her husband. Neglected by her husband she has learnt to prioritise his needs above her own.

Question 3

Quote which signifies Naivety

Answer 3

‘What he will do with it. Heaven knows’

Question 4

‘What he will do with it. Heaven knows’ Why does this show Naivety?

Answer 4

Emilia is naïve with the handkerchief. Betraying her friend. Exchanging a token of love for a tool of destruction.

Question 5

Quote which signifies Platonic love

Answer 5

‘I care not for thy sword’

Question 6

‘I care not for thy sword’ Why does this show platonic love?

Answer 6

She discards her own safety when Desdemona is dying out of hopes of saving her.

Question 7

What’s powerful about Desdemona and Emilia dying next to eachother?

Answer 7

Both woman die lying side by side proving their friendship was stronger than the patriarchal domination they were subject to

Question 8

Quote which signifies Emilia’s Marriage

Answer 8

‘The ills we do their ills husbands instruct us so’

Question 9

‘The ills we do their ills husbands instruct us so’ Meaning

Answer 9

Shows that Emilia is in a manipulative, abusive and controlling marriage.

Question 10

Quote which signifies Emilia’s Views of marriage

Answer 10

‘But I do think it is their husbands faults if wives do fall’

Question 11

‘But I do think it is their husbands faults if wives do fall’ Meaning

Answer 11

Proto feminist ideas blames men for affairs.

Question 12

The second sex Simone de Beauvoir

Answer 12

‘A woman is what a man says she is’

Question 13

What did Baylor say?

Answer 13

‘Emilia is the mouthpiece of repressed femininity’